Though not addressed in the study, it's also likely that the consumption of alcohol, a well-documented behavioral disinhibitor (sorry for the psych-speak), and the testosterone and adrenaline that often saturates the viewing environments of football games (sorry for the stereotype) may very well contribute to the increase in domestic violence.

It takes a researcher this long to confirm what everyone already knows - that alcohol is a disinhibitor for what is already there, not an excuse or cause of bad behaviors that the alcohol somehow synthesized?

"You have adolescents whose brains are not finished developing and are already more apt to take risks, adding alcohol, which is a disinhibitor, and that leads to extremely risky behaviors they never intended to do," she said.

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"Alcohol is a disinhibitor, as are steroids. An intense and immense anger would come out of me when I was disinhibited. And with the steroids exacerbated by the alcohol, what a terrible, terrible person I must have been to live with."- 'My Life As A Sex Bomb', Kathleen Turner in The Weekend Australian Magazine, 2 Feb 2008.